> Assuming this works as advertised, you can go from zero to a full blown email service for organizations with thousands of people (assuming the stated AWS limits are lifted), in record time
All the hard parts of doing that are in dealing with reputation, not in setting up a mail server or or scaling it. I've run an e-mail service with ~2 million users on hardware with comparable CPU, memory and IO capacity to my current laptop in the past. Setting up the mail server was not the time consuming part.
And the reputation bit in this instance is handled by SES. If you put a regular mail server behind something like SES for outbound messages, that's simple too.
While I do see benefits to serverless, this seems to me to be a good demonstration of how it is still in a totally embryonic state when it comes to things like ease of use.
All the hard parts of doing that are in dealing with reputation, not in setting up a mail server or or scaling it. I've run an e-mail service with ~2 million users on hardware with comparable CPU, memory and IO capacity to my current laptop in the past. Setting up the mail server was not the time consuming part.
And the reputation bit in this instance is handled by SES. If you put a regular mail server behind something like SES for outbound messages, that's simple too.
While I do see benefits to serverless, this seems to me to be a good demonstration of how it is still in a totally embryonic state when it comes to things like ease of use.